May 30, 2013, Thursday

In its first trial of a senior Balkan political figure, the United Nations war crimes tribunal at The Hague today found a former Bosnian Croat leader guilty of playing an important role in a campaign against Muslim civilians. The court sentenced...

February 27, 2001, Tuesday

The Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, announced with great fanfare 18 months ago as the West's answer to insecurity and violence in the Balkans, is floundering with the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic. In the immediate aftermath of the 1999...

November 26, 2000, Sunday

The first seven months in power have been sobering for President Stipe Mesic. He has been determined to bring Croatia into the European Union, but the economy he inherited after the death of the former president, Franjo Tudjman, is in seriously...

September 3, 2000, Sunday

A jocular former leader of the old Yugoslavia was elected on Monday as president, succeeding Franjo Tudjman, who died in December. The winner, Stipe Mesic, 65, last leader of the collective presidency before Yugoslavia disintegrated in 1991,...

February 8, 2000, Tuesday

Croatia votes on Monday for only its second president in a tightening race that hinges more on personality than on policy. But after the death in December of the autocratic Franjo Tudjman, who ruled Croatia from its independence in 1991, voters seem...

February 7, 2000, Monday

The new Croatian government is moving quickly to keep its promises of social equality and justice, with plans to cut official salaries by 40 percent, and to arrest a former Cabinet minister and an infamous tycoon. But the new prime minister, Ivica...

February 6, 2000, Sunday

A witty former Communist leader took a commanding lead in voting on Monday to replace the late president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman. But results early this morning mean that a runoff will be necessary between the two top finishers. The runoff, on...

January 25, 2000, Tuesday

Almost five years after Croatia promised to allow refugees from the Yugoslav wars to return to their homes here, the authorities still put endless obstacles in the way of many of those who want to come back. An enormous Croatian flag, brightly...

January 16, 2000, Sunday

Ivica Racan, a 55-year-old ex-Communist with a beard and a taste for rock music, is likely to be Croatia's next prime minister if the polls hold and an opposition coalition wins parliamentary elections on Jan. 3. And if the opposition does win,...